Whatever their form, Smith's fictions return to certain themes – duality, love and its loss, time and its passing, how we can find one another – blending them with political concerns such as the enterprise culture, mechanised warfare and the rise of surveillance.
It is important to remember that love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality; love makes the world less dense, more transparent and love opens your eyes to see the possibilities of the world and not its problems.
Consciousness, in this chrysalis molten-like state, appears to flicker between a duality of love and fear that purposely points toward a greater truth.
For this film, I knew I wanted to explore the duality of love and long-term relationships and how they can be so exciting and fun but also so boring and frustrating.
In this conflict she sees the roots of Highsmith's love of duality and of the hugely effective use of homoerotic currents in her fiction.
Miller, like all the others, can easily separate this work from the original, keeping a clear linked duality: they seem in love with Linehan's script, but can't help making reference to the film, which they also loved.
Kali is fearful, powerful and primal; she is a manifestation of the Divine Mother, she embodies the duality of ferocity and loving-kindness.
Mr. Burns loves dualities in his subjects, and Twain offers them up in big doses, beginning with the twin sides of his nature, one as the often troubled, financially beset Samuel Clemens, the other as his alter ego, "the irrepressible, endlessly interesting" Mark Twain.
The programme leads us through a series of introductory dances, both abstract and narrative, before culminating in "Vibhakta", a love song to the duality of the human spirit in which the male and female aspects express their mutual adoration.
Her excellent women know this, and they practice a second kind of duality: the ability both to fall in love and to recognize the absurdity of that love, or its object.
Not a sunny Rodgers and Hammerstein sort of love, but a Sondheimian sorry/grateful duality like the one the composer used to describe longtime marriage.
